Illusions are shadows moving endlessly across the ground. The shadows are quite real but they're shadows. They have very little substance.

When you're in the desert you witness acts of power. When you're in the world of the tonal, drop all that nonsense, become logical and orderly and have fun with that.

A better lifetime comes from not some karmic scale but from inner knowledge. Inner knowledge makes you happy. In other words, it is not as if someone is checking!

Prana is an element of energy. Energy is a manifestation of a certain principle which in Indian cosmology they call shakti, or spiritual power. Don't worry about the words too much.

You have no idea of how many people have control of your life. Make lists of people you trust and love and constantly examine the people in your life.

The shortest distance between two points is your mind. It's not a straight line.

Lao Tsu found Taoism easy to reconcile withthe world of human beings, which is interesting because with all the nature imagery, one might think it was in some way antithetical to contempory life.